Sweet Potato Season

I had to document my first sweet potato of the season. Covered in goat cheese and toasted pecans. I put a couple of ‘taters in the crockpot (wrapped in foil) and then went to the library for my weekly tutoring.

One little boy I help on Mondays forgot his homework, and his mama had to go back to school and get it while we read a story about ants. She was more than slightly irritated and I remembered how much I love 8 year olds.

Ahh.. forgetting homework for tutoring. My favorite is when I see the homework still in their mailbox the next morning… and ask them if they did it. When the response is “of course I did..” I can’t help but laugh.

Mmm, I love sweet potatoes.. I used to eat them so much that I was literally concerned I’d turn orange. I’ve tried to enjoy them with different toppings (like cheese or almond butter or marinara sauce) but have found I prefer them best plain, with some butter. Great photo though!

I was also going to comment about this – the ones we get in the UK are BRIGHT ORANGE with a deep brown skin, completely different to this! I didn’t know but I guess there must be different varieties maybe

I have a few sweet potatoes growing in my yard and I am so excited to pull them up and see how I did at my first attempt at growing them. I love the crock pot way of cooking them and will definitely have to try that!

We have 3 varieties (I call them all sweet potatoes, too!), and we love cooking all of them. Matt likes the taste test factor, and it makes a full meal. YUM! Think I’ll do Sweet potato Sunday this weekend!